Feels like a lot of users there are more for the performative changes (Oooh look I bought a pair of adidas trainers & an off brand cola) rather than actually steering away from major US owned services such as FB, Insta, Reddit
I thought about chiming in on that discussion, but the majority of people focus narrow-mindedly on commercial X/FB/Insta/TikTok competitors instead of available solutions (fediverse).
It is a lost discussion from the get-go and OP even dismissed fediverse-solutions as not appealing enough for his grandma.
So instead of building a better place or improving on things, folks start having a wet dream of a big money grab with new ad infested services.
maybe they tried the fediverse when it was bad or didn't have apps, I think before lemmy my experience was mastodon many years ago and I was confused because I thought it was supposed to be like discord the way ppl talked about instances not twitter, and even when I joined I didnt realize they interconnected til I joined lemmy years later lol, thought it was so weird having mini worse twitter that doesnt connect.
And in lemmy's case I weirdly associated it with voat and lag, then I joined and was suprised at the left leaning (significantly lol) userbase that actually provided helpful suggestions instead of telling me to google and actually getting replies for most posts/comments instead of them being lost in to the void.
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ScoreDivision@programming.dev · 23 pts · 1y
Feels like a lot of users there are more for the performative changes (Oooh look I bought a pair of adidas trainers & an off brand cola) rather than actually steering away from major US owned services such as FB, Insta, Reddit
SrMono@feddit.org · 11 pts · 1y
I thought about chiming in on that discussion, but the majority of people focus narrow-mindedly on commercial X/FB/Insta/TikTok competitors instead of available solutions (fediverse). It is a lost discussion from the get-go and OP even dismissed fediverse-solutions as not appealing enough for his grandma.
So instead of building a better place or improving on things, folks start having a wet dream of a big money grab with new ad infested services.
3dmvr@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
maybe they tried the fediverse when it was bad or didn't have apps, I think before lemmy my experience was mastodon many years ago and I was confused because I thought it was supposed to be like discord the way ppl talked about instances not twitter, and even when I joined I didnt realize they interconnected til I joined lemmy years later lol, thought it was so weird having mini worse twitter that doesnt connect.
And in lemmy's case I weirdly associated it with voat and lag, then I joined and was suprised at the left leaning (significantly lol) userbase that actually provided helpful suggestions instead of telling me to google and actually getting replies for most posts/comments instead of them being lost in to the void.
Blaze@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 1y
Yes, that's unfortunate. Hopefully a few people will still see Lemmy mentioned and give it a try
n_igma@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 1y
It'd upvote it instantly, but sadly, I deleted my Reddit account last weekend, after I made a lemmy account 🤷♀️
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 1y
Nice
Randomgal@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
The want good alternatives. Lmao
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 1y
Wow that was frustrating to read